beautiful day here in Washington DC the
polar vortex is have gone back to the polls
taking a lotta heat with them last night we were talking with a scientist
University of Florida oddly enough was doing research in the Arctic
I could see if I was like with the universe the Arctic I would want to do
research in Florida anyway he was saying that the
Pete the third the shouldn't permafrost
much of it is Pete permafrost is male teen
at alarming rates around the world is gotta lotta
lotta scientists really freaked out because he said and this is this is
something a
a distinction that I hadn't gotten before that has to do with
um global warming methane when it's immediately released into the atmosphere
is about a hundred times more potent than carbon dioxide molecule for
molecule
as a greenhouse gas over a bottle
twenty-year period it begins to degrade
after about twenty years now this year begins to degrade a
and continues over the next 100 years in fact actually I'm gonna be integrating
right away but
it any if you if you look at it over a 20-year period
are all rights should be over a hundred year periods about 20 times as potent
as has carbon dioxide I
if you look at it over a 50-year period I think it's a 33 35 times whatever so
you get these different numbers but whatever it is I mean
you know twenty times more potent means two thousand percent
some lot more potent and
what he said was that the the prom with permafrost permafrost
is soil that is typically covered with snow
and is frozen year-round it's permanently frosty
and when the snow melts in the soil is exposed to the
to the Sun the
the soil which is filled I mean this is soil he said you know from
from before last night ice age you know it's it's
you know very very very old dirt filled with old dead plants
lots lots organic matter lots lots a carbon
in fact he said this the carbon locked up in the permafrost just in the Arctic
is or to six times as I recall Imada all the carbon in the atmosphere right now
which is mind-boggling but here's where it gets really scary and something I
didn't realize
or a really interesting are both and that is that
when pearl frush melts
because ice occupies more space than water
here at a bottle love water sit outside and freeze it bursts
the like best pipes burst in the winter rank as as water turns to ice it gets
bigger
so as the permafrost melts the ice crystals in the permafrost melt it
earned a water
and that causes the permafrost to get to collapse
it settles down and
it actually drops it'll drop inches feet and as a drops the water that used to be
ice in it
floats to the top the dirt is settling which means that
the bacterial processes that are happening
in the permafrost are no longer what's called aerobic bacterial process now
there is a
you know oxygen consuming bacteria oxygen consuming bacteria convert
plant matter into mostly carbon dioxide
which is bad but it's not anywhere near as bad as methane
anaerobic bacteria bacteria that exists without the presence of oxygen
anaerobic ado teacher as not all bacterial some others just read chemical
reactions
anaerobic processes converged
the carbon their car you know the the carbohydrates
the the sugars and starches I
and cellulose might not have this engine plant here converted directly into
methane
so when per fries melts more often than not
it immediately goes anaerobic answers prison nothing like craziness that's
happening all over the Arctic right now
because all this warm air that was you know i mean the colour came down here
pick up a bunch are heat
me now is running on you know hearing about all the time right you
mall it's where I think gary's that we even had a frozen pipe
it's hard to keep the thing sixty degrees and then
numbers back up there
is that cold air wasn't supposed to come down here in the first place normally
the jet stream keep it away from us but
the wall affair the keeps the jet stream up to the north has been weakened by
global warming by reduction in the temperature gradient between
northern latitudes and the temperate I in our latitudes between the Arctic in
us
meanwhile you know the IPCC report this new IPCC report came out
week or so ago and the Heartland Institute god bless them
bless their little hearts
the Heartland Institute the has come up with
the end IPCC report
the non-governmental international Panel on Climate Change
the IPCC is the inter governmental panel
on climate change is the UN
and the president have a hard line is to just have passed
says that a you know climate scientists have been corrupted
I here's here's what little I had to say about them this morning about me a
regular climbers
climate scientists the 97 98 99 percent who
say lookout but it is a way
to get grant money research money and that's how these people make a living
they don't actually work and they don't actually produce anything they just feed
from the public teak
and any number of them do it and this is how they survived this is how they
this is how they live they don't ham job they don't have salaries they live
of taxpayer money grant money or or fundraising siphon some about
who rate this courtesy Media Matters and
Limbaugh Show and
so the this an IPCC report
i mean the the lead authors and the authors ovett
arm you know fred singer well for small
who is the Heartland Institute year there are lines to his receipt around
$67 million dollars over the past 30 years from groups including Exxon Mobil
the Koch brothers and the skiff foundation
right back in the 90's
these same people were showing for the tobacco industry
in fact Joseph bast the Heartland Institute current president 1998
said the EPA had a twist and charger is day to find a public health risk from
secondhand smoke
philip morris Tom Borelli is whether executives
he actually wrote a memo ninety 1993 calling the heartland assistance to do
party their five year plan
fred singer in ninety-three was hooking up with philip morris
to and ap ko Associates PR firm to debunk studies
showing a link between secondhand smoke in cancer
right
but you know that didn't bother the folks the good folks at Fox News
oddly enough I mean you know to
you could call it blatantly dishonest but
that use been a few minutes wanna talk about Obamacare chill yeah I know
summer sunset it's been a big success the White House has been telling
affected 7.1 I got the wrong player
that that was you know this is
hot Media Matters oh here it is right here
Media Matters is is all over this in a
yeah the much
but
whole group but I've scientists are now saying that they have debunked
a recent report that came out of the UN climate change
they're releasing their own findings they say that the doom and gloom
is all wrong according to their science Mike Tobin is live in Chicago so
good morning to you my yeah so on it goes yeah
we've got you know they did they they spent four minutes unless they spent
five hours on image IPCC report mostly making fun of it and it's all
you know misinformation and not mention in that these guys are funded by the
fossil fuel industry in the right-wingers and
it's all very 30 swoon
do which
I think we call it out and I think we start talking about the the
the call and services the Thom Hartmann program he said calling the cold air
into the oil barons we need to start calling them
the carbon barons to invent a new phrase